Accident Risk, Gender, Family Status and Occupational Choice in the UK

40 Pages Posted: 27 Sep 2006

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Peter J. Sloane

University of Wales, Swansea; IZA Institute of Labor Economics

Suzanne Grazier

University of Wales, Swansea

Date Written: September 2006

Abstract

Many studies show that women are more risk averse than men. In this paper, following DeLeire and Levy (2004) for the US, we use family structure as a proxy for the degree of risk aversion to test the proposition that those with strong aversion to risk will make occupational choices biased towards safer jobs. In line with DeLeire and Levy we find that women are more risk averse than men and those married with children are more risk averse than those without. However, the effect on the degree of gender segregation is much smaller than for the US.

Keywords: accident risk, gender segregation, family status, occupational choice

JEL Classification: J0, J2, K2

Suggested Citation

Sloane, Peter J. and Grazier, Suzanne, Accident Risk, Gender, Family Status and Occupational Choice in the UK (September 2006). IZA Discussion Paper No. 2302, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=933032 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.933032

Peter J. Sloane (Contact Author)

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Suzanne Grazier

University of Wales, Swansea ( email )

Singleton Park
Singleton Park
Swansea, Wales SA2 8PP
United Kingdom

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